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How are you all doing in these winds?
Part of next door's new roof is now on our drive.
Heard a massive bang earlier and it transpires we have lost one third of an old ash tree - and it has taken out a sweet chestnut and the only elm in the village. The trunk had obviously split when it was a sapling about 100 years ago. The other 2/3rds do not look very stable and I shall not be surprised if the rest comes down tonight. If they go, they will effectively cut the village off since they will fall across two roads (the tree is in a corner of the garden next to a T junction). I called an emergency tree person and they said if the bit that is down is not blocking the road it is just too dangerous to try and deal with the rest in these winds and the dark. Our massive conifer is also making the soil around it lift and if that goes, it will devastate a huge chunk of the garden and the village pond.
I suspect I shall not sleep well tonight!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Absolutely being howling all day oop here in West Yokshire and rain hammering on the windows. I haven't checked on damages but one of the six ft, wooden gates for the driveway seems to have had enough and disapeared. but hard to say that it hasn't just blown wide open I can't see anything it's that dark, I'll check in the morning, i'm not going out there tonight.
Unfortunately, poplars tend not to blow down. They flex and bend with the wind.
It is 6 years ago this week since a couple 60ft conifers blew down at my old house. I was blissfully unaware until I woke up and looked out the window and thought "something looks different". Did not hear a thing. The ash tree is much further from the house that the conifers were at my old house, but we definitely heard it go!
he did lose a poplar a dozen storms ago, Barmaid, but it was round the side of his house, not in my way. The top of it smashed a window on his third floor.
I'm so tempted to go out there with a nail file and help some of them on their way. I wish the storms would hit when the trees had leaves on them.
I brought all moveable things in yesterday. But I agree Vulcan, the wind is astonishing. I walked into the utility room earlier and though the washing machine was on - it was just the wind. It is howling down the chimney and is SO noisy. I'm done walking round with the torch, I'll survey the damage in the morning. As it is that wretched ash tree is going to take some clearing up together with all the stuff it took out. It has also wrecked a massive chunk of fence and our new salvia border.